Album listening party for my dude Sock the Rapper's new EP. KTH family member (and my big brother) Don produced the every song it. I heard it last week and it's fire. I'm not even sicing it. If it wasn't free, I'd pay for it. Anywho, come out to Pestrian Boutique at 3rd and South st. tonight at 8pm. It's free and it'd really be appreciated if you came out. *You can download it for free tomorrow from Sock's MySpace. Favorite tracks: "Greatest Love", "The Night Away", "Mama"
Don't want to spend too much time on this because I want to get to the videos. Jen showed my roommate Calvin and I this South Park episode on the internet on Saturday and it was hilarious. Some parts funnier than others, of course.
Basically, Canada goes on strike because they want more money, not realizing that Canada doesn't really do that much for the world ( on the show... I love Canada). However, the kids we've grown to love on South Park watch a show called Terrence and Philip, who happen to be from Canada, and due to the strike only reruns are being show. So the kids decide to call Canada to ask them to end the strike and Canada tells them that they want money. The kids then go on to devise a plan to make a video that everyone will watch and put it on youtube so they can make money from the internet. This is what they came up with...
LMAO!!!
So then they go... somewhere to pick up the money they made from the internet and there's a bunch of popular youtube stars. Also hilarious...
What happens after that is funny but I don't feel like sharing. Watch it yourself on the net. It's season 12, episode 4.
Oh yeah, and then we watched this. Give it a chance. It's funny.
Hey T and Bo. Remember how excited we got that time in the car last semester when I played this song for you? It's funny because the song was dumb old but I had just heard for the first time so I was extra excited. Well I heard this song today (iPod on shuffle, as usual) and instantly thought of you two. Its kind of cool how you two weren't together when I played it for you yet the exact same thing happened: you smiled, told me to run it back, then proceeded to tell me how old the song was and asked if I was sure I hadn't heard it before. lol.
Music (and Jay) lovers of the world unite!
So this is the verse that blew me away. Its the last verse on "Flip Flop Rock" by Big Boi featuring Killer Mike and Jay-Z. Young Hov was given the baton as the trail leg and he MURDERED IT! "Guilty until proven innocent, huh?"
Flip Flop Rock - Jay-Z's verse When I'm in the mood I rock the S Dot tennis shoes At the interlude, I got the Gucci flip-flops Then I, mix it up like gin and juice when I'm them interviews dudes wanna know what he copped And where you got that? How could they buy that? Where the million dollar watch at? Stop that! Why that, why this, niggaz wanna hijack the flyness I'm on a whole 'nother plane A whole different lane, a whole 'nother game that I'm playin Understand what I'm sayin? Hov' and OutKast, whatchu think about that? Really don't matter though what you niggaz chatter though Anybody get out of line then you trust that the mac'll go r-r-r-r-r-at, got you chill for that alone Back on the shit, back on the strip Another hit I'm not gon' miss!
Reading it is cool and everything but you must listen to it to understand its importance.
Some shows she's doing with The Roots. Not all of them though. The tour starts in May so I'm going to try to go home for the DC show. Click on image for dates.
I'm SUPER tired right now. Sorry my posts have been slacking this week. These things happen from time to time. Let's focus on artists from DC, Maryland, and Virginia this week.
Last month we reported about the new course offered at Carnegie Mellon University Sneakerology 101that explores how sneakers impact fashion, identity, and culture around the world.
The founders of the course have put together Kicksburgh - an event to celebrate Pittsburgh fashion and culture. The event takes place April 16th at the Skibo Gym at CMU. This event is open to everyone free of charge. On hand at the event will be a mock set up to give a taste of what happens inside the Sneakerology 101 classroom, four local spots displaying and selling their goods, live sneaker customizing as well as work by other local artists. A handful of collections will be on display from local collectors.
Admission is free of charge, but attendees are encouraged to bring a new or good conditioned pair of shoes to donate to Sole4Souls who provide footwear to people in third world countries and disaster stricken areas.
Temple students: I know you've seen this COON on campus. I was just sitting here in the computer lab in __________ Hall and i saw the kid in front of me watching this video on youtube. I believe this justifies my belief that TU not only has the most intelligent/gangster squirrels in America, but our bums are far better than you city's/college campuses bums as well.
Dear Mamaye, I'm sorry that guy yelled at you and tried to give you advice on sex and doing porn. That's disgusting. I miss you. Here's a sweet picture of us laughing at Casey. -Love, Chris
First and foremost, no, I'm not crying. I just got a little teary eyed for a second. Moving on... In the previous post I was talking about what I want for myself and the effect I hope to have on people, etc. Well coincidently, I just read a post/article that gave me a feeling that I hope KTH gives to other people. Its kind of difficult to explain, so I'll just let you read it yourself: article. What it is is some writer's personal opinion on what the top 20 Nike commercials of all time are. He counts down from 20 and attached youtube videos of all of them, then wrote a paragraph or two on his personal analysis. I didn't agree with everything he had to say about them but for the most part, he made pretty good points. The majority of them are classics. Some really good ones were left out.
This particular commercial is what started the water-works. I don't think a lot of people realize how fortunate we are to have lived to see the phenomemon that is Michael Jordan. I don't even know where to start on that one so I'll leave it at that. And Nike is the s**t. Look at how precise this commercial is.
There's a couple people that I can honestly say that I look up to. I think it was in the 8th grade when I first heard the term "renaissance man" and its been in the back of my mind since then. Being multifaceted and knowledgable in more than one area is something that I wish to be, and I can only hope that I'm already on my way to achieving. Mos Def is one of those people that exudes intelligence and an ability to get through to people: whether it be through musical talent or the ability to communicate well to large groups. On top of that, he's funny. Not to mention he's reppin' for us skinny black males in the world.
See what I mean? I'm impressed by that. And that's really all I want for myself: to impress someone. We all have our "go hard" phases where we swear we don't care what people think about us. And that may be true to an extent. But for myself, it'd be nice to hear a conversation about absolutely anything, and know that if necessary, I could give at least some insight on the issue, and that people would be happy that my opinion was requested. No one likes that person who swears they know everything, and that's not who I'm hoping to be. Rather, I'd like to be that person who can actually hold a conversation about something you never would have thought they'd have an opion on. Not quite there yet, but I'm working on it.
*For those of you who wished I wrote more personal posts, there's a little insecurity for ya. **Reading over my post, I'm not quite sure how I was inspired to write all that from this video. My mind wanders sometimes. Consequently, so do my blog posts.
I love acoustic versions of hip-hop tracks. Actually, I love acoustic guitar period. This track just made my day. Hope it makes yours, too. Oh yeah! Thanks for 5,000! Thought I didn't notice, right?
*You can download it for free tomorrow from Sock's MySpace. Favorite tracks: "Greatest Love", "The Night Away", "Mama"
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